The case for the Iraq war: lies and deception

As previously reported, the war in Iraq was based on various lies, particularly the claim that Iraq was an imminent threat and had or was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. President Bush scared Americans into supporting the war with imagery of a "smoking gun." Vice President Dick Cheney said that there was irrefutable evidence that Iraq had reconstituted their nuclear weapons program. Yesterday The New York Times published an article detailing how the Bush regime embraced disputed arms intelligence when making their case for war.

Update: The New York Times is reporting that Charles A. Duelfer, the top American inspector in Iraq, says in a report being made public today that Iraq appears to have destroyed its stockpiles of illicit weapons within months of the first war on Iraq. According to the Times, "Mr. Duelfer concluded that Mr. Hussein made fundamental decisions, beginning in 1991, to get rid of Iraq's illicit weapons and accept the destruction of its weapons-producing facilities as part of an effort to win an end to United Nations sanctions." The Bush administration was clearly grasping at straws when it made the case that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States.

Related articles:

• Iraq WMD report proves Bush, Democrats lied to justify Iraq war (World Socialist Web Site, October 8, 2004)
• U.S. Report Finds Iraq Was Minimal Weapons Threat in '03 (The New York Times, October 6, 2004)
• How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence (The New York Times, October 3, 2004)

Related posts:

• Former adviser charges Bush manufactured case for Iraq war (March 23, 2004)
• Iraq: One year later (March 19, 2004)
• U.S. Weapons Inspector: "We have not yet found stocks of weapons" (October 3, 2003)
• Bush's lies about Iraq (March 25, 2003)
• Is the war legal? (March 21, 2003)
• The invasion of Iraq: an unjust war (March 20, 2003)
• Bush's Smoking Gun Hypocrisy (December 10, 2002)